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NAMED GAP · THE OLD CHICAGO TRAIL HOUSE, ADAMS ROAD
NAMED GAP. The one house on this ground that the record gestures at and does not document is the stage stop of the Old Chicago Trail: the brick house on Adams Road, across from what is now the Covington Shores subdivision, which Germaine Goff's 1980 History of Harris Township — carried into the record by the township trustee's newsletter and the Granger Gazette (August 2020) — places as a stagecoach stop on the Chicago–Detroit road that ran across the top of Indiana, and which still stands. What the record does not give is everything a hotel register would want: whether the house ever kept a name of its own (a Traveler's Rest or a Franklin House of this ground), who kept it, over what years stages stopped there, and whether a traveller could buy a bed and a meal or only change horses. The Story of Granger section file carries the house as tradition at the size the Gazette gives it; this section prints it as its named gap. The gap is not printed as a negative: a stage stop on a through-route was a lodging function whether or not any surviving paper calls it an inn, and the absence of a keeper's name in print is an absence of print, not of a keeper. SETTLER: the manuscript sources behind Goff's History of Harris Township and the Granger file of the MPHPL Harris Branch library — the same settler the Story of Granger section file names for this house (GAP-T7) — together with the Harris Township trustee's records; a keeper's name, a tavern licence, or a stage-line waybill naming the stop would close it.
Sources: Spine file of this record: the stage stop article, from Lindsay, "Harris Township: History, and a Question," Granger Gazette, August 2020, drawing on Germaine Goff, The History of Harris Township (1980). The gap and its settler are stated here at the size the open record gives them.